Design Crush & Popsicles! - StumbleUpon
Not to sound full of myself, but I’m pretty sure this is the be all, end all of popsicle roundups. There’s a little something for everyone: the foodies, the purists, the ones who prefer frozen yogurt, the ones who prefer a little alcohol, everyone. Tweny-five options to be exact. The post I did last summer on the cold guys was one of DC’s most viewed ever, so I thought you’d all be up for another round – was I right?
Cloudy is a happy animated short by artists Samuel
Cloudy is a happy animated short by artists Samuel Borkson and Arturo Sandoval III of Friends With You. Welcome to the clouds! From IAmOther:
WOM Ad Study: Talkable is more Oral than Digital
March 3, 2012 • Comments Off The Talkable Brand video series continues every Tuesday with a new episode giving you knowledge and a nudge to make word of mouth marketing happen. So far, eight episodes have been posted. Behind the scenes I’ve been busy prepping the remaining 42 episodes. (Yes, a total of 50 episodes will be posted in 2012.) An upcoming episode details the digital/oral divide that exists between the conversations people have about brands online (digital) versus offline (oral).
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Need a new reason to cry at weddings? Tosando, a Japanese company that offers musical instruments and lessons, is pleased to oblige with this intense, time-tripping tear-jerker. The short film tells the story of a widowed, middle-aged father and his daughter on her wedding day. At the reception, dad sits at the piano and attempts to play Pachelbel's Canon, which opens the floodgates for memories both happy and sad.
GUEST POST - thebeautydepartment.com - StumbleUpon
photos by: Kathleen Bly post designed by kristin ess Mad love for our first guest post winner, Taylor Nick!!! I am fully obsessed with this bohemian-inspired-braided-goodness!
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Lucien Zayan is French. But he is also the charming founder and director of the Invisible Dog Art Center. A raw space in a vast converted factory building with an open-ended mission: to create a new kind of interdisciplinary arts center. Neither a commercial gallery nor a concept-driven non-profit, The Invisible Dog has a unique role in the New York arts scene. Over the last 4 years, over 100,000 people have attended their events.
An introduction to Online Advertising, and why you should care
In 1994, Wired, then known as HotWired, claims it invented the banner ad. The Mosaic browser was just morphing into Netscape in 1994. And if you think ads slow down page loads now, readers had to download the first banner ads over thin dial-up connections.Despite those handicaps, the gaudy banner ad took over the web, 468 pixels wide by 60 deep. HotWired launched with banner ads from 14 companies including MCI, Volvo, Club Med, 1-800-Collect and Zima, but legend has it that the first HotWired banner ad was from AT&T, prophetically asking “Have you ever clicked your mouse right here?
21 More Brilliant Minimalist Print Ads
Have you ever noticed that most of the greatest ideas, whether it’s business or design, are so simple and obvious that you wonder why you haven’t thought of it before! As we mentioned in our previous article (see Brilliant Minimalist Print Ads (PART I)) Leonardo da Vinci once said: “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication”, and architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe adopted the motto “Less is more”. Even after 500 years Leonardo’s words are true and this rule is still widely used in design and advertising. It may sound a bit contradictory, but creating simple things often require much more brain power than the most complicated-looking stuff.
James Victore: Your Work Is A Gift
What’s the value of your creative voice? A lot, according to designer James Victore. Using some of his own creative challenges as examples, Victore argues that it is only through finding your voice, your fears, and your passion — and expressing them — that you can make great work. James Victore runs an independent design studio hell-bent on world domination.
Lord Sugar talks advertising, Twitter, Apple and YouView
Lord Sugar: discusses advertising and the media at Nabs 'An Audience with Lord Alan Sugar' on 4 October was organised by Nabs and moderated by Claire Beale, the editor of Campaign, and Marc Mendoza, MPG's chief executive. During the event Sugar said he often analyses ads and admitted he had been wrong about how consumer habits would change after the launch of Sky+. He initially believed it would mean an end to ads as "no one would bother watching them anymore".
Yale Press Log
Image Credit: Lina Bo Bardi, Yale University Press, 2013 Books from the prestigious Yale University Press art list, featuring news, interviews, ideas, and commentary about our titles, exhibitions, and the fascinating world of art at large. Visit the new Yale ARTbooks blog at Recent Posts: Don’t Paint Over This Post on The World Atlas of Street Art and Graffiti November 19, 2013 | Comments
